FSX Misc

The misc section for Microsoft Flight Simulator X includes many strange vehicles, cars and tools. This section includes boats and cars which you may use in FSX.

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HDE Sky Textures V2.0

Pablo Diaz originates the collection of 140 sky visuals, which use 32-bit color depth, and Danny Glover retools it for compatibility, with the files prepared to support a flight-simulation environment across multiple platforms for diverse operation contexts such as training, evaluation, and mission analysis.

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Controls/Keyboard Commands

An extensive list of keyboard commands spans basic and advanced simulator operations, including controls, autopilot, and view functions, with a PDF sheet added for cross-compatibility and easy viewing; print them out on five pages. Formats include PDF, JPG, PNG, and the fsxkypml.zip file is referenced; Num Lock must be OFF before using Num Pad commands.

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ENBSeries .dll And .ini file

An ENBSeries variant for flight simulations, derived from Pegasus Enbseries and credited to Jim Waters, bundles a D3D9.dll and enbseries.ini configured for the main directory. The effect toggles on and off via SHIFT+F12, enabling quick visual adjustments during flight.

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HD Moon Texture V1.0

Marco Fischbach creates a version 1.0 of high-resolution moon imagery, using 512x512 images in DXT5 format rendered from an 8192x4096 map for improved realism. The collection comprises 15 moon1.bmp through moon15.bmp, designed to replace the default visuals in the main directory.

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AI Carriers

AICarriers lets you place and command single ships or entire naval fleets in the simulator, without editing traffic or mission files. It requires Java JRE 1.5 or higher and SP1, supports acceleration carriers and full carrier ops when available, with SP2 compatibility noted; Vista remains untested.

: 5.28 MB
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Improved Runway Lights

Jose R. Navarro crafts a runway lighting modification that adds more realistic light colors and improves distance visibility overall. Jose R. Navarro provides a focused improvement to how runway lighting appears at distance across views.

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Replacement Water Textures

By Aime Leclercq, this change replaces the default water appearance by altering the seafloor near coastlines, targeting the shallow bottom rather than deep zones. Only the area close to the surface receives adjustment, leaving deeper regions untouched.

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High Definition Airport Parking & Jetways

Two files, AIR_Jetway2 and AIR_Jetway2_lm, replace jetway visuals, while AirportParkingSpace refits the parking spaces. A max-load of 4096 in the graphics section yields high-definition output, though the value reverts to 1024 after display tweaks and must be re-applied to restore it.

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Cold and Dark Cockpit Mod

An apron-start scenario places the default 172 on the ground at the same airfield, with systems off and fuel tanks empty. The file serves as a template for subsequent flights, guiding cold and dark starts, by Henning Schaefer.

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HD Moon Texture V3.0

Marco Fischbach delivers V3.0 of a lunar surface enhancement, replacing the prior version 2.0 with a completely new rendering that incorporates a normal map and a bump map for improved terrain detail. The data converts to extended 32-bit bitmap and supports 2048x2048 resolution, with an accompanying image.

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Weapons Pack 4

Drop Object-enabled weapons operate in free flight, delivering dumb bombs, laser-guided bombs, GPS-guided bombs, and air-to-air plus air-to-ground missiles that fly forward. Created by Christopher Sykes, with Gmax models by David Brice (British) and FSDS by Kotaro Akikawa (US), the work is accompanied by a readme detailing limitations.

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'GenReloaded' Photoreal Trees V1

By Adnan Arif, this first installment presents photoreal tree imagery across world regions, with conifers lightened and resized, poplars shortened, and palms recolored to better match ground surfaces and enhance a 3D appearance. Some imagery is resized to 512x512 and stored in the TEXTURE folder, with originals kept in the ORIGINALS folder.

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'GenReloaded' Autogen Buildings

Adnan Arif presents updated rooftop surfaces across all regions, brightening colors to resemble aerial references more closely. The work integrates Genreloaded autogen elements for North America and Europe and preserves original visuals with a dual folder approach for managing modified and preserved roofs.

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FPS Enhancement Package V2

A revised edition by Tom Knudsen sharpens 342 image files, resizes them, adds an alpha channel to each, and corrects prior irregularities for better performance, aligning with the original claim of 5 to 15 FPS gains.

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Free Flight UI Background

A new background image for the free flight setup interface appears, with photographer notes in readme.txt by David Ranieri, and it accompanies a visual demonstration. An accompanying screenshot shows the Freeflight menu, and the filename Free-Flight-UI-Background-fsx-1.jpg serves as reference.

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Effects Package 1.2

Realistic snow and rain blast effects, together with wheels snow/rain elements, constitute two weather-related visuals documented by Keven Menard. Keven Menard credits the two effect types: snow and rain blast effects and wheels snow/rain effects.

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Manual/Checklist - Airbus A330-300

PDF-format checklist guides the Airbus A330-300 through a complete start-to-shutdown sequence, beginning with dark and cold panels and engines and ending with securing the aircraft. It traces origins to the POSKY A330-300 model with John J. Schumacher’s panel, crediting Werner Schott, and notes more than 10,000 downloads for earlier versions.

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Manual/Checklist Default CRJ700

Werner Schott delivers a printable PDF manual for the CRJ700, guiding operations from cold-and-dark to shutdown with sections on pre-start checks, engine start, taxi, takeoff, cruise, descent, and approach. It emphasizes procedures that enable saving a dark-cockpit scenario for future departures and includes ignition and FMC setup guidance.

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Water Fix

By Tom Knudsen, this work provides resized ocean image data for a flight simulator, tightening file size while preserving visual quality. It reduces data from 1394 KB to 341 KB to boost performance without changing the water’s appearance.

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Airport Catalog (Global)

PDF documents present offline regional airfield data drawn from base .bgl files, organized for quick cross-checks during simulated travel. Global coverage spans Canada, Europe, South America, the USA, Africa, and Mexico, reflecting the project’s worldwide scope.

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